I'll get a picture up of the second square, a basket of impatiens, in the next couple of days. All I have to show for it right now in a lot of brown for the basket!
Flower Thread Floral Afghan (9/2/10)
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Flower Thread Floral Afghan (9/2/10)
This is the afghan I started 19 years ago. It was a series from Cross Stitch Sampler magazine introducing the new DMC Flower Thread in 1991. I stitched the first square at that time and then things happened (house fire, divorce) and I let my much-loved hobby fall to the wayside. In 2002, I decided to pick it up again only to find out that the thread had been discontinued. Thanks to ebay, I was able to find all the colors I needed to complete the thing. Here's the first square, geraniums in a clay pot.
I'll get a picture up of the second square, a basket of impatiens, in the next couple of days. All I have to show for it right now in a lot of brown for the basket!
I'll get a picture up of the second square, a basket of impatiens, in the next couple of days. All I have to show for it right now in a lot of brown for the basket!
Last edited by annkor26 on Sat Nov 06, 2010 4:33 am, edited 15 times in total.
Re: Flower Thread Floral Afghan
What a lovely project.
Glad you re-started it.
Glad you re-started it.
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Re: Flower Thread Floral Afghan
Excellent news on the threads. Hope to see more of this. 
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Re: Flower Thread Floral Afghan
What a great project
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Re: Flower Thread Floral Afghan
Oh this is nice. Glad you were able to get the threads and pick it up again. 
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Re: Flower Thread Floral Afghan
this is very pretty!! So glad you've managed to get the needed threads and that you are enjoying stitching again!! Work in Progress
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Re: Flower Thread Floral Afghan
Lovely project, glad you could pick it up again. Looking forward to seeing more 
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What a pretty afghan this is going to be You've made a lovely start on it
You've made a lovely start on it Pam
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THat is a wonderful start and how nice that you were able to find all of the colors that you need. I really look forward to seeing more!!!
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Re: Flower Thread Floral Afghan
Its really gorgeous and such a vibrant colour too. Looking forward to seeing the next square done.
I was very tempted with an afghan from Stoney Creek but finally decided against it - too much other stuff on the go.
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What a lovely project!
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This is lovely. So glad you picked it up again after so long. Looking forward to seeing the impatiens!
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The fabric is beautiful and you've made a great start. Glad you managed to find the threads!
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Really good. I love the colours
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Isn't Ebay the greatest!!
Lovely work How many squares in all will there be?
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How many squares in all will there be?Faith
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Re: Flower Thread Floral Afghan
A lovely design and it's good that you were able to get the rest of your threads together. Look forward to your updates.
Re: Flower Thread Floral Afghan
This is lovely!
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There are 15 squares including a personalization square. The finished afghan can be seen here (about 1/3rd of the way down):Nachstenliebe wrote:Isn't Ebay the greatest!!
Lovely work
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This is such a beautiful project, so wonderful that you picked it up again after all this time! Can't wait to see how this turns out!
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